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Re: make :Q breakage
> So the man page will say when I change it:
>
> :Q Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, so that it can be
> passed safely to the shell.
>
> :Qm Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable and `$', so that
> it can be passed safely through recursive invocations of make.
Wouldn't it be more obvious to have both :Qs and :Qm to explicitly state
what you intend plus a "historic" :Q (behaving like :Qs)?
This would also make it easier to audt Makefiles for :Q mis-usage, I guess.
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